You should make sure that the port rules do exactly what you want them to do, including packaging up the port. These are the important points you need to verify.
pkg-plist does not contain
anything not installed by your port.
pkg-plist contains everything
that is installed by your port.
The port can be installed using the
install target. This helps to
verify if the install script works fine.
The port can be deinstalled properly using the
deinstall target. This helps to
veryify if the deinstall script works fine.
Make sure that make package can be
run as a normal user (that is, not as
root). If that fails,
NEED_ROOT=yes has to be added to the
port's Makefile.
make stage
make check-orphans
make package
make install
make deinstall
pkg_add package-name
Or, in case of pkgng:
pkg add package-name
make package (as user)
Make sure that there are not any warnings issued in any of the stages.
The most thorough way to automate these steps is via
installing the tinderbox or
poudriere. These maintain
jails in which you can test all of the above
steps without changing the state of your running system. Please
see ports-mgmt/tinderbox or
ports-mgmt/poudriere in the Ports
Collection for more information.
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